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During a two-day visit, Union Minister Nitin Gadkari personally reviewed the progress of work carried out on the upcoming Delhi-Mumbai Expressway (DME). The transport minister also carried out a speed test run on the expressway in the Kia Carnival.

Diesel sales by the country's state fuel retailers came in at 2.1 million tonnes during Sept. 1-15, a decline of about 1.5% from last year and down 6.8% from the same period in 2019, the data showed.

All relevant companies should establish data security management systems and regularly assess risks from network attacks, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology said in a statement.

Kolkata police will replace its ageing diesel-powered fleet of patrol vehicles with EVs by gradually inducting about 226 units of the Nexon EV.

The company slowed production in the first half of the year, then exceptionally opened the factories in August to offset the shortfall, but was eventually forced to idle part of its operation in late August.

Automakers from General Motors to Japan's Toyota have slashed output and sales forecasts due to scarce chip supplies, made worse by a COVID-19 resurgence in key Asian semiconductor production hubs.

Tesla, which assembles vehicles for the Chinese market in Shanghai, has been under scrutiny in China this year over its storage and handling of customer data.

MG Motor India is expected to outperform the market this year and aims to double the sales by the first quarter of 2022.